adventuresinlearning:

Brent S. Comment on Jabreel Chisley’s post “Time to Speak” « Cooperative Catalyst

Youths, Beware the:

Intent behind the curriculum (it lies hidden deep within societal “truths”): Throughout the brief (written) history of mankind, one or more societal truths have turned out to be entirely erroneous.

Compulsory gift (and the encoded messages) of public education: A return exchange of value is expected.

Sound-bite that sounds too good to be true: “Truthy” phrases do not expose the context from which they have been conjured.

Teachers, Beware the:

Class clowns and disruptors: They expose your greatest weaknesses (and your greatest strengths).

Authority of position power: “Standing” to teach may have been built on a foundation of mud.

Existent dyadic power structures: Students and teachers are bound to, and serve, the same system.

Adults, Beware the:

Desire to assure continuation of your comforts through replication: Your youths are not you.

Discomfiting circumstances of your lives: Is there a reason niggling doubts and fears keep you awake at night?

Assumption you “know what is best” for youths: You may be living half-baked dreams of those you inherited them from.

There are school buildings and education systems, and then there are School buildings and Education systems – all involve curricular lessons and learning

adventuresinlearning:

Including students’ perspectives on school change is a relatively new trend in education. “It’s very easy in policy debates to push the levers you have at your disposal rather than find new ideas,” Boser said. “Testing is easy to put your mind around. It’s harder to think about how are we going to engage students? It’s less tangible, it’s a culture question, it’s easy to ignore.”

Student Voice in education is important and fair.